July 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. John Higgins about atrial fibrillation
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go, third day edition. The program starts right now.
Come on microphone, do your job. There we go. We
got that taken care of. I'll give this to Will
because we have a guest coming up in the second
segment of the program, Doctor John Higgins will be back.
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And if it sounds like I'm a little bit winded,
I am because I just had to sprint back to
my desk and back to hear breathe though, and I
made it. I'm hoping that during this hour we are
able to both educate and entertain in more or less
equal doses. And by the way, my hasty exit yesterday
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for which I gave no explanation. It turned out to
be a false alarm, Thank goodness. Three calls from my wife,
almost back to back within about two minutes, right toward
the end of the show, and it told me, because
she knows I'm on the air. Then it told me
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that there was some urgent matter that needed my attention. Well,
the good news is the very good news. Is it
just boring details, really, but all's well in our world.
And what happened was that somehow, some way, her clock
in her car has been moved forward by five or
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six minutes, so when she thought she was dialing us
at one oh five or one oh six, or dialing
me anyway, she was actually doing it at about about
what twelve fifty seven or eight will fifty seven I
think it was when we dumped. Yeah, so sorry about that.
We'll move on. The eyes of Texas remained fixed pretty
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straightly and strongly on the troubling tasks still being done
by recovery crews up there in the hill country Kerr County,
mostly where so many people remain unaccounted for. That's the
hard part, the waiting, I think, even knowing, even knowing
that a loved one is not likely to be found
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alive at this point, but you would have to hold
on to a little bit of hope just in case.
And every minute goes by is just another God it's
just another little piece of that hope kind of goes away.
It's just an almost impossible burden to bear. I cannot
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imagine just not knowing, just not knowing where someone you
cared about so much a week ago and had conversations with,
and maybe shared a meal with, and went to a
movie with, or went tubing down the river, whatever, and
you can't find him. Nobody can find them. Now. The
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good news is nearly everybody in our country has come
through as the strong nation we are should in support
of everyone on the ground there, including a good friend
of mine, Captain Scott and Noll from Danny port O'Connor.
Scott's up there. He's got a lot of experience. It
doesn't matter how his former profession before he became a
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fishing guide put him in a position to where he
he can help. He can definitely help up there. He
also had a little skid steer that he bought to
work on his ranch, so he trailered that and went
up to Kerk County with the I think it was
the maybe that might have been the Port O'Connor volunteer
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Fire Department people, not all of them, but enough of them.
And he's been working a crew, he'd been running a crew,
overseeing a crew since he got there a few days ago,
and he even sent something out yesterday, I believe it
was to ask if anybody else could come join him
up there, because his crew that he oversaw had been
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whittled down to just him and two other people for
this morning, whereas usually they were working with six or
eight in a group. And what their task is is
to just go down the riverbank step by step, inch
by inch basically, and turn over everything, move everything out
of the way so that they can determine whether or
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not somebody's family member might be buried in that debris.
It's not pleasant work, certainly, and there are so many
they're just I don't want to get too gross in
the in the lunch hour, but there are all kinds
of animals that were swept down river as well as people,
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and so the even even Scott said lest yesterday, look,
if you come up here and volunteer to jump into
my crew, you're gonna get dirty. You're gonna get sweaty,
you're gonna get smelly. It's just it's nasty out there,
and which it should be. That's the only way something
like that can happen. When the water goes down and things,
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the sunlight hits everything. It's just it's horrible to have
to go through that, but somebody's got to do it.
It's gruesome work. It's just gruesome work looking for somebody's
child or sibling, or parent or grandparent under trees and
under limbs and wherever they may be. Right now, I
just think God, so many people are up there doing it,
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putting their own lives on hold so that maybe they
can help somebody else begin to heal. What I still
can't explain or understand and never will is how many people,
even including some Texans, how many disgusting, vile people, have
chosen to use this tragedy as some sort of a
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springboard to say very cruel, very untrue things about how
it happened, why it happened, and what they, in total ignorance,
thinks should be done about it. A lot of what
I've seen and heard is it's just despicable, it really is,
and I know it costs one woman her job. I
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know that because the company for whom she formerly worked
issued a statement saying she's not here anymore. Doesn't matter who,
doesn't matter what her job was. She just said some
things that are just unthinkable about what happened. There's somebody
else around here doing the same thing. My wife pointed out,
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she played a video for me just yesterday about the
statements made by somebody around here, and it just it
shocks me that anybody can be that insensitive that quickly
over something that has just upset so many people's lives.
We are not one of us, probably is more than
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maybe one or two connections away from knowing someone whose
life was lost along that river. People who spoke harshly
about it. Whatever, whatever their reasons, they're bad reasons. I
don't know. I don't know where their minds are, how
they work, but they're messed up, they really are. Nobody
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wants to hear them. By the way, if you can't
say anything nice right now, just be quiet. Nobody wants
to hear your rant.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Not now.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
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Speaker 1 (09:48):
What's life without a net? If I suggest you to
go to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the
show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All right, welcome back to fifty p plus and thanks
for listening. As promised a while back, at the request
of a listener, we're going to talk in this segment
about atrial fibrillation aphib is, more often called what I
believe to be a fairly common condition in older adults.
And to help me determine that, I'm going to bring
in a very trusted partner to this show, doctor John Higgins,
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cardiologist at mcgoverned Medical School and sports cardiologists for the
Houston Rockets and Rice Athletics. Welcome back, Dot.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Hey, Doug. Great to be talking to you again and
getting the good message out about some common part issues
that people have.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, so let's start at the beginning. What exactly is aphib.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
So what aphib is, Doug, is it's an irregular and
often a rapid kind of heart rhythm, Okay, And in
your heart you have four chambers. Two of them are
called the atria there at the top of the heart,
and then are called the ventricles at the bottom of
the heart. Normally, normally the blood comes into the top chambers,
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it fills them and then they contract, you know, with
a good squeeze, and then it goes into the main
pumping chambers, the ventricles, and then subsequently the ventricles pump
it out to the body and to the lungs. And
that's how it works. Now in a fed those top
chambers instead of giving a one good squeeze they're kind
of like going too fast, and they're very irregular, so
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sometimes it'll be a quick squeeze and then a slow squeeze.
And it doesn't help people to because you know, they
don't get proper filling of those lower chambers, and so
oftentimes they'll come in they'll be a bit you know,
out of breath, shorter, you know, they'll have palpitations. They
can sometimes be fatigued. Other times. Unfortunately, Doug, some of
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them don't have any symptoms, which is a concern because
you know, this condition. Actually the main thing we worry
about is it can increase the risk of someone having
a stroke.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, we don't want that. Yeah, certainly not.
How often does that happen?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, it gets as you get older, Doug, it becomes
more common. So particularly you know, once people get over
sixty five, especially if they have other heart conditions like
high blood pressure or you know, other stress related conditions.
And once you get to about you know, sixty five,
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it's probably about you know, one percent of the people,
and then once you get to you know, the eighties,
it's it's about five percent of people have this frubillation.
Sometimes it comes and goes you know, and sometimes it's
there all the time, and we can we can do
different tests to like a we can measure their heartbeat
for a whole day with a device called the wholes monitor,
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and that'll tell us exactly, you know, how much fibrillation
they're having and how fast it's going, and you know
what to do about it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
If I were having a fib what would I feel
other than that kind of rapid heart rate.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Well, Doug, you might feel a little bit fatigued, a
bit tired. You know, you may get a little bit
more out of breath when you're doing your exercise routine
for example. You know, the palpitations you mentioned, they are common. Occasionally, Doug,
people will get fluid build up as well, and they
can get like, you know, fluid build up on their
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legs and in their lungs, and that can also make
them a little bit out of breath. But the main
thing that people report is just feeling a sense of
the palpitations. Doug.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, Hey, Doc, we got I don't know. There's a
weird connection. It's kind of you're just kind of breaking
up and scattering, is there. I don't what's.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Causing that, but that's weird. Let me try moving. Uh?
Is that any that's perfect?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Right there? Just a freeze, Doc.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We'll do.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Doctor John Higgins here with us on fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I noticed in my research this morning that you know,
and you talked about fatigue and whatnot, I'm pretty well fatigued.
But I think that's from just working really hard. Is
that primary symptom that kind of racing heartbeat?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yes, okay, don't common thing is that kind of like
feeling you know, your heart racing and palpitations. That's the
colemanest thing. You know. Fatigued, like you said, can be
from you know, getting enough sleep. Sometimes some people that
have their blood count is slightly low, you know, that
can cause fatigue. But but yeah, the palpitat if you
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don't have the palpitations and DOUG. A quick way people
can check is, you know, go down from their thumb,
the base of their thumb and feel that pulse, you know,
on their wrists, the race artering, and just you know,
feel that with the fingers of their other hand, and
you should. If you feel it strong and regular, then
you know you're not have an atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay, I'm good. That's good enough for me right there.
So let's talk a little bit about management of this.
So it's on the flip side of it. Once it's diagnosed,
what can you do about it?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Well, the first there are two parts of managing the
atrial fibrillation, Doug. The first is, you know, controlling that
fast heart rate, because oftentimes when people go into it,
it's real fast and the heart doesn't like going like
fast for too long. So what we try to do
is we slow the heart rate down with medicines and
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the other thing that we sometimes do, especially if it's
just the first time it's happened to someone, Doug and
they're younger, we actually can hook them up to a
defibrillata type machine and give them a little bit of
a jolt and that can put them back into their
normal heart rate.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You've heard of that. It makes sense now that it's
called a defibrillator. It just it stawned on me. That's
exactly what we're.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Talking exactly exactly, Doug. And then so that's the the
so and most people, you know, we can get their
rate under control with medicines like beta blockers or calcium
channel blockers. Sometimes we use stronger medicines like amiodorone, but
getting the rate control most of the time, we can
take care of that. And then the other aspect, as
I mentioned before, Doug, is unfortunately they can get those
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blood clots forming in the heart and when a little
one of those, you know, a little blood clot, if
it breaks off, it can go up to the brain
and cause them to happen what we call a brain
attack or a stroke. And so to make sure that
doesn't happen, Doug, we actually put them on some blood thinners, okay,
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and so we thin the blood a little bit so
that these clots don't start up in the first place,
and again very effective therapy. We have an older therapy
called cuminin that a lot of people are on, and
we have some newer therapies as well, where they with
the cuminin we kind of have to sample their blood
every so often and make sure that they're at the
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right thinness. But the newer medicines, uh, we actually don't
have to. We just they just take them regularly and
that will also prevent the blood clots.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, that's a handy thing because nobody a blood clot
wherever it starts if it breaks loose and runs through
your system. It's going to stop somewhere.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Is it not exactly, Doug. And you know, whether it
be in the brain, it could stop in the foot,
you know, and it could interfere with blood flow to
the foot. It could stop in the heart and you
could have a heart attack from that. So it's like
you said, Doug, we got to prevent it in the
first place if we can.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So how if if I've never had it and Will's
never had it? And what is there anything we can
do to prevent or at least discourage.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
This, absolutely, Doug. So the main preventative things are having
your blood pressure well controlled, so uh, you know, and
that means you know, my meaning is as simple as
coming back on the amount of salt that that you
eat with your food. We know that, you know, people
that eat a lot of fast food or you know,
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with the salts and the monosodiums and other things, they
their blood pressure goes up. Avoiding high amounts of caffeine.
And and this comes back to we've discussed in the past, Doug,
those energy drinks. Energy drinks, they can put you into fibrillation.
And the other thing, Doug, is is just moderate alcohol consumption.
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We know overdoing the alcohol can result in people, you know,
being at risk for atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I hate to do it, but we're gonna have to
stop right there, keep them off the booze, and they'll
their hearts should be better.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Right, Yeah, it is okay, but too much of anything
is not good.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Doc, accept exercise. We'll go with that. Yeah, Doctor John Higgins,
thank you, as always, so very much for your time.
I greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
My friend, Yes, you're welcome. And Doug Wick keeping all
those kids in our thoughts, Oh.
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Speaker 2 (21:05):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. So
moving forward, which we must all do, really to the
market was creeping upward yet again, despite a couple of
things that Wall Street's chicken littles might be worried about
that I think, frankly, are non issues. Anyway, Oil back
down almost a buck and a half earlier, about an
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hour ago, I think was the last time I looked.
It was sitting right around sixty seven dollars a barrel,
which is that's mostly good news. Even gold was up
I think ten or twelve dollars a little earlier today,
All things pointing toward a move back to a better
future for this country. It looks like getting into it.
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From the cognitive impairment desk. President Biden's White House physician
guy named doctor Kevin O'Connor invoked his Fifth Amendment right
against self incrimination this week when he was interviewed, well
yesterday actually by the House Oversight Committee about President Biden's
health while he was in office and whether or not
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he was impaired. The House Oversight Committee had a whole
lot of questions for him, but he just said, no,
thank you, I'm not going to answer any of your questions,
and worth noting he did not invoke doctor patient privilege,
which would have allowed him to not answer any health questions,
but wouldn't have given him a pass on the other
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questions he might have had thrown his way about auto
pens or who else might have been involved in decision
making or in about the president's ability to lead. This
one's a long ways, I mean a really long ways
from over and before too long. I wouldn't be surprised
if a whistleblower or two were to come forward to
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shed some light on this situation in exchange for criminal unity.
It would make sense. There's probably somebody sitting in a
pretty hot seat right now thinking, you know, and maybe
having little Q and A with some legal counsel on
whether or not what's going to make sense. Speaking of whistleblowing,
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sword of I guess from the sound the alarm desk
word that a petition calling for installation of warning sirens
in Kirk County is kind of a duh. Gathered more
than thirty five thousand signatures in just twenty four hours.
I'm almost surprised that it wasn't more signatures. I've spoken
this week and even this past weekend, shortly after that flood,
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over on Sports Talk seven ninety in my outdoor show
about how something such as that needs to be done.
In my vision, like I said yesterday, is for maybe
a three tiered warning system. A single siren blast perhaps
at regular intervals to let people know bad weather is developing,
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and then maybe two blasts to say it's potentially bad,
so pack a bag and put it by the front
door with your car keys, and then maybe three blasts
at regular intervals to say leave now and head for
high ground. That something has to be done. We're not
sure what, and there's actually there was a plan in
place if you didn't hear about this. Uh, even Camp
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Mystic had just had its evacuation plan approved two days
prior to that flood, So more work to be done
in that And if anybody's got a better plan, give
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Give me your first name so I know who to
acknowledge with the good thing you're gonna tell me, and
then we can just go from there. From the Close
Call Desk, by the way, comes word that six Secret
Service officers were suspended following investigations into what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania,
almost a year ago now, when a gunman, Thomas Crook's
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opened fire on President Trump. The story I read didn't
include a lot of detail, to be perfectly honest, but
it was shared in the story that the people who
were suspended came from pretty much all ranks in the
Secret Service. It wasn't just the people around him. It
wasn't just the people at higher rank and who maybe
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should have done something differently. There was a little of
this and a little of that, and six people got suspended.
The True Colors Desk, I want to do this. I've
only got a minute and a half. I'll sit on
this one for a little bit and we'll lighten it
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Speaker 1 (29:05):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening to appreciate it.
From the True Colors Desk. I'll go there and then
I'll lighten it up on the way out. This is
by the way Box news word from the National Education Association,
the largest teachers union in the country. They were out
in Oregon this past week, and one speaker after another
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stood up and pretty much talked openly about how political
their jobs are and how strongly they intend to fight
against parental involvement in school, against President Trump and his
efforts to purge those who would advocate for a national
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indoctrination oriented curriculum that doesn't really teach anything but how
kids should not think for them selves and that they
should just do as they're told. The NEEA said very
little about math and reading and science, and a whole
lot about pretty hard left plans that would tell our
children about they They openly talked about how important it
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was for them to teach in our schools. Immigration policy.
I'm talking about grade schools, in middle schools and high schools,
immigration policy, parental rights, which, by the way, any A
pretty much claims shouldn't even exist, and just a handful
of other ideas it wants its members to champion that
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in fact, have absolutely nothing to do with raising the
education bar in this country, which, by the way, that
bar at present is embarrassingly low by worldwide standard. And
if you don't believe that, just look up where the
United States ranks in childhood education. Just pick any subject
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you want, really, maths, science, English, you name. It very
very disturbing that these people have such a voice and
their their budget. I want to say, was hold on,
I'm going to look back and see if it's on
the top of this right on this page. Team three
hundred and eighty million dollars in annual revenue. These people
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are being paid to just keep pushing their political agenda
and that's all it is. Go listen to them, trust
me on this. You will. You'll be shocked at how
how blatantly socialists they're trying to become and trying to
take our kids with them. It was just last week,
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I believe, the head of the Chicago School Board told
her constituents at at a similar gathering that the children
in the Chicago schools belong to them and not to
their parents. Just sit on that for a minute. All right,
moving forward? Uh, but this is interesting. I found this
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quite interesting actually, and it's it's a frequent topic. I'll
put a little headline on something that says, I'll drink
to that. This one, a new study found that nine
percent of adult workers in their thirties use alcohol, marijuana,
or even harder drugs like cocaine. It says here on
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the job, not on weekends, not on the way to
the club, on the job. That's kind of frightening. Ah,
this one, I'm gonna I'm gonna save this one for last.
This is a I have something to do with wildlife,
and I'm gonna talk about it over the weekend coming up,
but i'm gonna mention it to you guys too. And
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the title on that one is dumb as a stump.
And if you've seen the story about that this week,
you already know what i'm gonna tell you about. But
I'm gonna I'm gonna hold it until I've got about
a minute left under not a chance comes word based
on some survey somewhere that nearly a third of Americans
think they could pass as British. Maybe here, maybe here
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where we don't really often hear the actual speech of
a true brit although I have a good golf buddy
who is from Great Britain and it's distinctly different from
our speech patterns, and jokingly, sometimes some of the guys
in our group will try to emulate his speech and
they just fall woefully short. I would love to think
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that I could do that. I would love to think
that I could even change from British to Irish to
Scottish dialect. But honestly, no, in a room full of
people from anywhere in Great Britain, they'd say, what's up, Yank,
and that would be in reference to me being from
the United States, which would be instantly detectable. This one
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I find. I titled this one new level of Intrusion.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Get this.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
It's got to be just it's got to be fake.
But there is a rumor going around that Apple It's
upcoming iOS update is going to include a feature. This
can't be true, going to include a feature that detects
if you're having we'll call it phone relations over FaceTime
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and what it's gonna do. This application that I believe
is going to be fake. This feature is going to
pause your camera and ask you to confirm that you're
comfortable with this. This cannot be true. It can't. I'll
do some more research and see if there's anything else
(34:51):
other than this on it. That one's there. Oh, I've
got two that I can get. Fifty eight right, will
thumbs up? Okay, I'll do dumb as a stump now,
and then i'll do pick your battles and I can
get them both in two minutes. Fifty nine year old
guy in California tried to help an injured bear on
the side of the road, big old black bear, and
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you can guess what happened. It immediately mauled him. Treated
at a hospital for multiple multiple injuries to his arm.
Turned out that guy had called for help. He called
nine to one one and claimed he'd found a bear
on the road that had been hit by a vehicle.
Then he led on that actually it was he who
had hit the bear, and he felt sorry for the bear,
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so he tried to lift it. He tried to pick
up a wounded bear whom he had just hit with
a car or truck or suv or whatever, and he
was gonna lift it over a concrete barrier on the
side of the road. That is textbook dumb as a stump.
You don't mess with with injured animals if you can
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help it, unless you are trained in it, and unless
you have a whole lot of gloves and with a bear,
maybe just a whole lot of distance care from afar
would be the best idea. From the pick your battles
desk a golfer somewhere, it doesn't even say where. But
this guy, I can rest it. I could guarantee you
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that alcohol was involved number one. And this guy got upset,
got angry with another group of golfers ahead of them
or behind them. I don't know these circumstances that got
these two foursomes standing together and mouthing off back and forth.
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But this one guy, the guy with the biggest mouth,
happened to pick a fight with the guy who happened
to be a former National Hockey League player who, oh,
by the way, was also at this point in his
life about forty pounds bigger than the guy who was
mouthing off, and went in there and pretty much God
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is behind whipped He even came back for more like
twice after he'd taken a bunch of punches to the face.
Slow learner, there's video. Go look it up if you want.
It's pretty. It's pretty fascinating what golf will do to people,
probably just because he missed a putt. We're out of here.
We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios
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Come on microphone, do your job. There we go. We
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And if it sounds like I'm a little bit winded,
I am because I just had to sprint back to
my desk and back to hear breathe though, and I
made it. I'm hoping that during this hour we are
able to both educate and entertain in more or less
equal doses. And by the way, my hasty exit yesterday
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for which I gave no explanation. It turned out to
be a false alarm, Thank goodness. Three calls from my wife,
almost back to back within about two minutes, right toward
the end of the show, and it told me, because
she knows I'm on the air. Then it told me
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that there was some urgent matter that needed my attention. Well,
the good news is the very good news. Is it
just boring details, really, but all's well in our world.
And what happened was that somehow, some way, her clock
in her car has been moved forward by five or
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six minutes, so when she thought she was dialing us
at one oh five or one oh six, or dialing
me anyway, she was actually doing it at about about
what twelve fifty seven or eight will fifty seven I
think it was when we dumped. Yeah, so sorry about that.
We'll move on. The eyes of Texas remained fixed pretty
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straightly and strongly on the troubling tasks still being done
by recovery crews up there in the hill country Kerr County,
mostly where so many people remain unaccounted for. That's the
hard part, the waiting, I think, even knowing, even knowing
that a loved one is not likely to be found
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alive at this point, but you would have to hold
on to a little bit of hope just in case.
And every minute goes by is just another God it's
just another little piece of that hope kind of goes away.
It's just an almost impossible burden to bear. I cannot
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imagine just not knowing, just not knowing where someone you
cared about so much a week ago and had conversations with,
and maybe shared a meal with, and went to a
movie with, or went tubing down the river, whatever, and
you can't find him. Nobody can find them. Now. The
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good news is nearly everybody in our country has come
through as the strong nation we are should in support
of everyone on the ground there, including a good friend
of mine, Captain Scott and Noll from Danny port O'Connor.
Scott's up there. He's got a lot of experience. It
doesn't matter how his former profession before he became a
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fishing guide put him in a position to where he
he can help. He can definitely help up there. He
also had a little skid steer that he bought to
work on his ranch, so he trailered that and went
up to Kerk County with the I think it was
the maybe that might have been the Port O'Connor volunteer
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Fire Department people, not all of them, but enough of them.
And he's been working a crew, he'd been running a crew,
overseeing a crew since he got there a few days ago,
and he even sent something out yesterday, I believe it
was to ask if anybody else could come join him
up there, because his crew that he oversaw had been
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whittled down to just him and two other people for
this morning, whereas usually they were working with six or
eight in a group. And what their task is is
to just go down the riverbank step by step, inch
by inch basically, and turn over everything, move everything out
of the way so that they can determine whether or
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not somebody's family member might be buried in that debris.
It's not pleasant work, certainly, and there are so many
they're just I don't want to get too gross in
the in the lunch hour, but there are all kinds
of animals that were swept down river as well as people,
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and so the even even Scott said lest yesterday, look,
if you come up here and volunteer to jump into
my crew, you're gonna get dirty. You're gonna get sweaty,
you're gonna get smelly. It's just it's nasty out there,
and which it should be. That's the only way something
like that can happen. When the water goes down and things,
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the sunlight hits everything. It's just it's horrible to have
to go through that, but somebody's got to do it.
It's gruesome work. It's just gruesome work looking for somebody's
child or sibling, or parent or grandparent under trees and
under limbs and wherever they may be. Right now, I
just think God, so many people are up there doing it,
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putting their own lives on hold so that maybe they
can help somebody else begin to heal. What I still
can't explain or understand and never will is how many people,
even including some Texans, how many disgusting, vile people, have
chosen to use this tragedy as some sort of a
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springboard to say very cruel, very untrue things about how
it happened, why it happened, and what they, in total ignorance,
thinks should be done about it. A lot of what
I've seen and heard is it's just despicable, it really is,
and I know it costs one woman her job. I
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know that because the company for whom she formerly worked
issued a statement saying she's not here anymore. Doesn't matter who,
doesn't matter what her job was. She just said some
things that are just unthinkable about what happened. There's somebody
else around here doing the same thing. My wife pointed out,
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she played a video for me just yesterday about the
statements made by somebody around here, and it just it
shocks me that anybody can be that insensitive that quickly
over something that has just upset so many people's lives.
We are not one of us, probably is more than
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maybe one or two connections away from knowing someone whose
life was lost along that river. People who spoke harshly
about it. Whatever, whatever their reasons, they're bad reasons. I
don't know. I don't know where their minds are, how
they work, but they're messed up, they really are. Nobody
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wants to hear them. By the way, if you can't
say anything nice right now, just be quiet. Nobody wants
to hear your rant.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Not now.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Okay, maybe I don't know two years from now, but
not now. Cedar Cove RV Resort over there on the bay,
well over there, Trinity Base specifically, I believe or a
piece of galveus about. I'm not exactly sure where Tri
City Beach Road ends over there. I spent a while
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since I've been over and I used to make those
runs a lot. I don't anymore, but I do remember
knowing where Thompson's bake Camp is, and if you can
find that, you can find Cedar Cove RV Resort, been
there for a long time, a great place to park
your RV or actually we're gonna be talking to Al
Kibbi next Tuesday. The man who owns the place, and
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what he's able to do now is if you don't
have an RV, if you don't have a pop up camper,
but you still want to get that experience, he will
rent you one so that you can come over there
and just make believe, make believe it's yours and make
for a day, a week, a month, whatever you want
to do, He'll work it out with you. So you
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can stay on one of those slabs, all concrete slabs,
all concer creet roads, and every one of those those
slabs has electric water and sewer hookups. There's Wi Fi.
There's a bathhouse where you can take share if you
get all hot and sweaty from catching a bunch of
fish in the afternoon. The pretty good fishing too, when
the tides right, the wind's right, which might get a
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little rain over there too this weekend. Who knows one
word or the other, though, It's a whole lot better
to wake up in the morning to a sunrise over
the bay or go to sleep over a sunset over
the bay than it is to look out of a
motel window and see a parking lot. And God knows
what's going on out there. Cedar cove rvresort dot com,
(09:40):
Go there, check it out. Al and Tracy Kibbi own
the place they'd love to hear from you Cedar cove
Rvresort dot com.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
What's life without a net? If I suggest you to
go to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the
show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All right, welcome back to fifty p plus and thanks
for listening. As promised a while back, at the request
of a listener, we're going to talk in this segment
about atrial fibrillation aphib is, more often called what I
believe to be a fairly common condition in older adults.
And to help me determine that, I'm going to bring
in a very trusted partner to this show, doctor John Higgins,
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cardiologist at mcgoverned Medical School and sports cardiologists for the
Houston Rockets and Rice Athletics. Welcome back, Dot.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Hey, Doug. Great to be talking to you again and
getting the good message out about some common part issues
that people have.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, so let's start at the beginning. What exactly is aphib.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
So what aphib is, Doug, is it's an irregular and
often a rapid kind of heart rhythm, Okay, And in
your heart you have four chambers. Two of them are
called the atria there at the top of the heart,
and then are called the ventricles at the bottom of
the heart. Normally, normally the blood comes into the top chambers,
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it fills them and then they contract, you know, with
a good squeeze, and then it goes into the main
pumping chambers, the ventricles, and then subsequently the ventricles pump
it out to the body and to the lungs. And
that's how it works. Now in a fed those top
chambers instead of giving a one good squeeze they're kind
of like going too fast, and they're very irregular, so
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sometimes it'll be a quick squeeze and then a slow squeeze.
And it doesn't help people to because you know, they
don't get proper filling of those lower chambers, and so
oftentimes they'll come in they'll be a bit you know,
out of breath, shorter, you know, they'll have palpitations. They
can sometimes be fatigued. Other times. Unfortunately, Doug, some of
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them don't have any symptoms, which is a concern because
you know, this condition. Actually the main thing we worry
about is it can increase the risk of someone having
a stroke.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, we don't want that. Yeah, certainly not.
How often does that happen?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, it gets as you get older, Doug, it becomes
more common. So particularly you know, once people get over
sixty five, especially if they have other heart conditions like
high blood pressure or you know, other stress related conditions.
And once you get to about you know, sixty five,
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it's probably about you know, one percent of the people,
and then once you get to you know, the eighties,
it's it's about five percent of people have this frubillation.
Sometimes it comes and goes you know, and sometimes it's
there all the time, and we can we can do
different tests to like a we can measure their heartbeat
for a whole day with a device called the wholes monitor,
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and that'll tell us exactly, you know, how much fibrillation
they're having and how fast it's going, and you know
what to do about it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
If I were having a fib what would I feel
other than that kind of rapid heart rate.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Well, Doug, you might feel a little bit fatigued, a
bit tired. You know, you may get a little bit
more out of breath when you're doing your exercise routine
for example. You know, the palpitations you mentioned, they are common. Occasionally, Doug,
people will get fluid build up as well, and they
can get like, you know, fluid build up on their
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legs and in their lungs, and that can also make
them a little bit out of breath. But the main
thing that people report is just feeling a sense of
the palpitations. Doug.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, Hey, Doc, we got I don't know. There's a
weird connection. It's kind of you're just kind of breaking
up and scattering, is there. I don't what's.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Causing that, but that's weird. Let me try moving. Uh?
Is that any that's perfect?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Right there? Just a freeze, Doc.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We'll do.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Doctor John Higgins here with us on fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I noticed in my research this morning that you know,
and you talked about fatigue and whatnot, I'm pretty well fatigued.
But I think that's from just working really hard. Is
that primary symptom that kind of racing heartbeat?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yes, okay, don't common thing is that kind of like
feeling you know, your heart racing and palpitations. That's the
colemanest thing. You know. Fatigued, like you said, can be
from you know, getting enough sleep. Sometimes some people that
have their blood count is slightly low, you know, that
can cause fatigue. But but yeah, the palpitat if you
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don't have the palpitations and DOUG. A quick way people
can check is, you know, go down from their thumb,
the base of their thumb and feel that pulse, you know,
on their wrists, the race artering, and just you know,
feel that with the fingers of their other hand, and
you should. If you feel it strong and regular, then
you know you're not have an atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay, I'm good. That's good enough for me right there.
So let's talk a little bit about management of this.
So it's on the flip side of it. Once it's diagnosed,
what can you do about it?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Well, the first there are two parts of managing the
atrial fibrillation, Doug. The first is, you know, controlling that
fast heart rate, because oftentimes when people go into it,
it's real fast and the heart doesn't like going like
fast for too long. So what we try to do
is we slow the heart rate down with medicines and
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the other thing that we sometimes do, especially if it's
just the first time it's happened to someone, Doug and
they're younger, we actually can hook them up to a
defibrillata type machine and give them a little bit of
a jolt and that can put them back into their
normal heart rate.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You've heard of that. It makes sense now that it's
called a defibrillator. It just it stawned on me. That's
exactly what we're.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Talking exactly exactly, Doug. And then so that's the the
so and most people, you know, we can get their
rate under control with medicines like beta blockers or calcium
channel blockers. Sometimes we use stronger medicines like amiodorone, but
getting the rate control most of the time, we can
take care of that. And then the other aspect, as
I mentioned before, Doug, is unfortunately they can get those
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blood clots forming in the heart and when a little
one of those, you know, a little blood clot, if
it breaks off, it can go up to the brain
and cause them to happen what we call a brain
attack or a stroke. And so to make sure that
doesn't happen, Doug, we actually put them on some blood thinners, okay,
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and so we thin the blood a little bit so
that these clots don't start up in the first place,
and again very effective therapy. We have an older therapy
called cuminin that a lot of people are on, and
we have some newer therapies as well, where they with
the cuminin we kind of have to sample their blood
every so often and make sure that they're at the
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right thinness. But the newer medicines, uh, we actually don't
have to. We just they just take them regularly and
that will also prevent the blood clots.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, that's a handy thing because nobody a blood clot
wherever it starts if it breaks loose and runs through
your system. It's going to stop somewhere.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Is it not exactly, Doug. And you know, whether it
be in the brain, it could stop in the foot,
you know, and it could interfere with blood flow to
the foot. It could stop in the heart and you
could have a heart attack from that. So it's like
you said, Doug, we got to prevent it in the
first place if we can.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So how if if I've never had it and Will's
never had it? And what is there anything we can
do to prevent or at least discourage.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
This, absolutely, Doug. So the main preventative things are having
your blood pressure well controlled, so uh, you know, and
that means you know, my meaning is as simple as
coming back on the amount of salt that that you
eat with your food. We know that, you know, people
that eat a lot of fast food or you know,
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with the salts and the monosodiums and other things, they
their blood pressure goes up. Avoiding high amounts of caffeine.
And and this comes back to we've discussed in the past, Doug,
those energy drinks. Energy drinks, they can put you into fibrillation.
And the other thing, Doug, is is just moderate alcohol consumption.
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We know overdoing the alcohol can result in people, you know,
being at risk for atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I hate to do it, but we're gonna have to
stop right there, keep them off the booze, and they'll
their hearts should be better.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Right, Yeah, it is okay, but too much of anything
is not good.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Doc, accept exercise. We'll go with that. Yeah, Doctor John Higgins,
thank you, as always, so very much for your time.
I greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
My friend, Yes, you're welcome. And Doug Wick keeping all
those kids in our thoughts, Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
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They sure don't make them like they used to. That's
why every few months we wash them, check his words
and spring on a fresh care to wax. This is
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Speaker 2 (21:05):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. So
moving forward, which we must all do, really to the
market was creeping upward yet again, despite a couple of
things that Wall Street's chicken littles might be worried about
that I think, frankly, are non issues. Anyway, Oil back
down almost a buck and a half earlier, about an
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hour ago, I think was the last time I looked.
It was sitting right around sixty seven dollars a barrel,
which is that's mostly good news. Even gold was up
I think ten or twelve dollars a little earlier today,
All things pointing toward a move back to a better
future for this country. It looks like getting into it.
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From the cognitive impairment desk. President Biden's White House physician
guy named doctor Kevin O'Connor invoked his Fifth Amendment right
against self incrimination this week when he was interviewed, well
yesterday actually by the House Oversight Committee about President Biden's
health while he was in office and whether or not
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he was impaired. The House Oversight Committee had a whole
lot of questions for him, but he just said, no,
thank you, I'm not going to answer any of your questions,
and worth noting he did not invoke doctor patient privilege,
which would have allowed him to not answer any health questions,
but wouldn't have given him a pass on the other
(22:33):
questions he might have had thrown his way about auto
pens or who else might have been involved in decision
making or in about the president's ability to lead. This
one's a long ways, I mean a really long ways
from over and before too long. I wouldn't be surprised
if a whistleblower or two were to come forward to
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shed some light on this situation in exchange for criminal unity.
It would make sense. There's probably somebody sitting in a
pretty hot seat right now thinking, you know, and maybe
having little Q and A with some legal counsel on
whether or not what's going to make sense. Speaking of whistleblowing,
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sword of I guess from the sound the alarm desk
word that a petition calling for installation of warning sirens
in Kirk County is kind of a duh. Gathered more
than thirty five thousand signatures in just twenty four hours.
I'm almost surprised that it wasn't more signatures. I've spoken
this week and even this past weekend, shortly after that flood,
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over on Sports Talk seven ninety in my outdoor show
about how something such as that needs to be done.
In my vision, like I said yesterday, is for maybe
a three tiered warning system. A single siren blast perhaps
at regular intervals to let people know bad weather is developing,
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and then maybe two blasts to say it's potentially bad,
so pack a bag and put it by the front
door with your car keys, and then maybe three blasts
at regular intervals to say leave now and head for
high ground. That something has to be done. We're not
sure what, and there's actually there was a plan in
place if you didn't hear about this. Uh, even Camp
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Mystic had just had its evacuation plan approved two days
prior to that flood, So more work to be done
in that And if anybody's got a better plan, give
us a call seven one three two one two five
nine five zero seven one three two one two five
nine five zero, or maybe use the talkback button on
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the AM nine point fifty Live page at iHeartRadio dot com.
All of our stations have that across the entire country.
If you're listening to one of our stations, on the app.
There's a talkback button there where you can just push
it and it'll give you about about fifteen twenty second
I believe, which will hold a lot of good, solid content.
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Give me your first name so I know who to
acknowledge with the good thing you're gonna tell me, and
then we can just go from there. From the Close
Call Desk, by the way, comes word that six Secret
Service officers were suspended following investigations into what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania,
almost a year ago now, when a gunman, Thomas Crook's
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opened fire on President Trump. The story I read didn't
include a lot of detail, to be perfectly honest, but
it was shared in the story that the people who
were suspended came from pretty much all ranks in the
Secret Service. It wasn't just the people around him. It
wasn't just the people at higher rank and who maybe
(25:52):
should have done something differently. There was a little of
this and a little of that, and six people got suspended.
The True Colors Desk, I want to do this. I've
only got a minute and a half. I'll sit on
this one for a little bit and we'll lighten it
up some let's do that, Oh most of us, I
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would agree. Like ice cream instacart just shared, this was
not speculation, This is actual delivery of ice creams. The
most ordered ice cream flavor in America just boring, as
you can imagine, vanilla, plain vanilla, followed by chocolate, big surprise.
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Then come cookies and cream, strawberry and mint chip, the
top trending ice cream flavor. It continued pineapple coconut, which
is fitting since today is National Pina Colada Day. I
don't know if you could put rum in ice cream
or not, but it doesn't sound like a horrible idea.
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The best ice cream flavor of all time, of course,
according to me anyway, chocolate chip cookie dough and my wife,
because if I buy chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
and bring it in the house, what I will have
before I can practically get to it is a small
container of vanilla ice cream. She gets in there and
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cherry picks the little cookie dough things.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I just I love that woman, I truly do. Ut
Health Institute on Aging is an amazing collaborative of providers
from pretty much every medical discipline you can think of.
They are, I don't want to say better they are
more trained than other doctors in their fields in that
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to become a member of yout Health's Institute on Aging,
they go get additional training as to how they can
specifically apply their knowledge to us, to seniors. And that's
a big deal for us. It truly is. It's a
real boost when you walk into a doctor's office, you
walk into a therapist's office, you walk into pt you
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walk into an audiologist, whatever it is, whoever it is,
and know that they are skilled specifically in your needs.
Not all doctors can say that, And there's nothing wrong
with the other doctors. They're all doctors for a reason.
They they got through the schooling. But these people are
that They did this not for themselves. They did it
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because they care about seniors. It's bottom line. Go to
the website. Check that place out. There is a ton
of information there, all of which is perfectly free. You
can just peruse through there and find all kinds of
resources that you and I and anybody else our age
will be glad to find. And then you can start
looking at providers and see what you can find close
to you. Most of them in the med Center most
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of their time, but they also do come out and
work at outlining hospitals and clinics and offices and whatever.
Utch dot edu slash aging utch dot Edu slash aging
Aged to perfection.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening to appreciate it.
From the True Colors Desk. I'll go there and then
I'll lighten it up on the way out. This is
by the way Box news word from the National Education Association,
the largest teachers union in the country. They were out
in Oregon this past week, and one speaker after another
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stood up and pretty much talked openly about how political
their jobs are and how strongly they intend to fight
against parental involvement in school, against President Trump and his
efforts to purge those who would advocate for a national
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indoctrination oriented curriculum that doesn't really teach anything but how
kids should not think for them selves and that they
should just do as they're told. The NEEA said very
little about math and reading and science, and a whole
lot about pretty hard left plans that would tell our
children about they They openly talked about how important it
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was for them to teach in our schools. Immigration policy.
I'm talking about grade schools, in middle schools and high schools,
immigration policy, parental rights, which, by the way, any A
pretty much claims shouldn't even exist, and just a handful
of other ideas it wants its members to champion that
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in fact, have absolutely nothing to do with raising the
education bar in this country, which, by the way, that
bar at present is embarrassingly low by worldwide standard. And
if you don't believe that, just look up where the
United States ranks in childhood education. Just pick any subject
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you want, really, maths, science, English, you name. It very
very disturbing that these people have such a voice and
their their budget. I want to say, was hold on,
I'm going to look back and see if it's on
the top of this right on this page. Team three
hundred and eighty million dollars in annual revenue. These people
(31:24):
are being paid to just keep pushing their political agenda
and that's all it is. Go listen to them, trust
me on this. You will. You'll be shocked at how
how blatantly socialists they're trying to become and trying to
take our kids with them. It was just last week,
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I believe, the head of the Chicago School Board told
her constituents at at a similar gathering that the children
in the Chicago schools belong to them and not to
their parents. Just sit on that for a minute. All right,
moving forward? Uh, but this is interesting. I found this
(32:06):
quite interesting actually, and it's it's a frequent topic. I'll
put a little headline on something that says, I'll drink
to that. This one, a new study found that nine
percent of adult workers in their thirties use alcohol, marijuana,
or even harder drugs like cocaine. It says here on
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the job, not on weekends, not on the way to
the club, on the job. That's kind of frightening. Ah,
this one, I'm gonna I'm gonna save this one for last.
This is a I have something to do with wildlife,
and I'm gonna talk about it over the weekend coming up,
but i'm gonna mention it to you guys too. And
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the title on that one is dumb as a stump.
And if you've seen the story about that this week,
you already know what i'm gonna tell you about. But
I'm gonna I'm gonna hold it until I've got about
a minute left under not a chance comes word based
on some survey somewhere that nearly a third of Americans
think they could pass as British. Maybe here, maybe here
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where we don't really often hear the actual speech of
a true brit although I have a good golf buddy
who is from Great Britain and it's distinctly different from
our speech patterns, and jokingly, sometimes some of the guys
in our group will try to emulate his speech and
they just fall woefully short. I would love to think
(33:38):
that I could do that. I would love to think
that I could even change from British to Irish to
Scottish dialect. But honestly, no, in a room full of
people from anywhere in Great Britain, they'd say, what's up, Yank,
and that would be in reference to me being from
the United States, which would be instantly detectable. This one
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I find. I titled this one new level of Intrusion.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Get this.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
It's got to be just it's got to be fake.
But there is a rumor going around that Apple It's
upcoming iOS update is going to include a feature. This
can't be true, going to include a feature that detects
if you're having we'll call it phone relations over FaceTime
(34:30):
and what it's gonna do. This application that I believe
is going to be fake. This feature is going to
pause your camera and ask you to confirm that you're
comfortable with this. This cannot be true. It can't. I'll
do some more research and see if there's anything else
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other than this on it. That one's there. Oh, I've
got two that I can get. Fifty eight right, will
thumbs up? Okay, I'll do dumb as a stump now,
and then i'll do pick your battles and I can
get them both in two minutes. Fifty nine year old
guy in California tried to help an injured bear on
the side of the road, big old black bear, and
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you can guess what happened. It immediately mauled him. Treated
at a hospital for multiple multiple injuries to his arm.
Turned out that guy had called for help. He called
nine to one one and claimed he'd found a bear
on the road that had been hit by a vehicle.
Then he led on that actually it was he who
had hit the bear, and he felt sorry for the bear,
(35:37):
so he tried to lift it. He tried to pick
up a wounded bear whom he had just hit with
a car or truck or suv or whatever, and he
was gonna lift it over a concrete barrier on the
side of the road. That is textbook dumb as a stump.
You don't mess with with injured animals if you can
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help it, unless you are trained in it, and unless
you have a whole lot of gloves and with a bear,
maybe just a whole lot of distance care from afar
would be the best idea. From the pick your battles
desk a golfer somewhere, it doesn't even say where. But
this guy, I can rest it. I could guarantee you
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that alcohol was involved number one. And this guy got upset,
got angry with another group of golfers ahead of them
or behind them. I don't know these circumstances that got
these two foursomes standing together and mouthing off back and forth.
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But this one guy, the guy with the biggest mouth,
happened to pick a fight with the guy who happened
to be a former National Hockey League player who, oh,
by the way, was also at this point in his
life about forty pounds bigger than the guy who was
mouthing off, and went in there and pretty much God
(37:00):
is behind whipped He even came back for more like
twice after he'd taken a bunch of punches to the face.
Slow learner, there's video. Go look it up if you want.
It's pretty. It's pretty fascinating what golf will do to people,
probably just because he missed a putt. We're out of here.
We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios
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